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A 아저씨，이 공책 세 권 주세요.
B --------------------------a) 네，여기 있습니다.
b) 네，세 권 있습니다.
I am doing some exercises to understand more about grammars and vocabulary. For the dialogue above, the answer is the option a. However, I am wondering if the option b also works.
Could anyone share your opinion? Thanks.
여기 있습니다 is idiomatic, translates to "here you go".
세 권 있습니다 is "there are three", so it's a bit unnatural to say that in that situation.
Bad exercise.
If that is a "one or more answer" question, then I, a Korean only educated in Korea, might choose both after 5 minutes of consideration. If not, a) is the right answer for education purpose explaining different usage of "있습니다".
In real life, b) also could be the natural conversation.
네，세 권 (여기) 있습니다.
